Your first computer

[Miscue]

Remember the "Turbo" button?
33Mhz was the shizzle

Yeah... the turbo button made it run slower!

[mcveighr]

Some Texas Instruments one, before we got a commodore 64.

[SlartyBartFast]

A teletype machine connected to the mainframe at my father's work.

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html

Then, some terminal type one-piece machine with that used 8" 250 kilobyte floppy disks. The first LED handheld "video" games had shown up. I had a better game (and the only one I new of) on the computer at home. NO ONE else I knew owned a computer.

3-4 disks to get the operating system running, no hard drive.

Then the disks SHRANK. 5.25". THen they DOUBLED the capacity of those! (you had to take them out of the drive, flip them over, and put them back in)

Then the first computer with an AMAZING 5MB hard drive!! Then, OH MY GAWD 10MB.

Then about 6 months before everybody we would have the next generation IBM-compatible machine. When we received our 486 my friends were still drooling over the new 386 machines.

I still have one of these:http://www.miniarcade.com/pb/split.htm
and my Colecovision still works.

[Muzikman]

Yeah... the turbo button made it run slower!

No, the turbo button did it job. The computer was designed to always run with the turbo on. The idea was, you turned it off to run some of the apps that ran too fast on the full processor speed. This was handy for the early games who's timers were based on processor cycles:)

[kevdupuis]

Good ole TRS (trash) 80 with a cassette drive.

[Restola]

The first computer I remember using was a giant laptop with a black and white screen, sometime around 1990. I used to play prince of persia all the time after school.

The first computer I owned was 33mhz.

[Bear_Claw]

Commodor 64
Packard Bell 486
Pentium 166
the this onld Beater a Pentium 600
I also have three laptops from variouse ages ones a 486, ones a pentium 166 and the most current is a Pentium 400.

HAve all but the pentium 1666 and the 486 still

NIce to have a bro who got me computers cheap/free (Not anymore ) Now i just gota learn how to use em lol.



I actually had another laptop another 486 that i kinda distroyed lol it kept freezing so i did what any MECHANIC would do i hit it harder and well lets just say it kinda stoped working lol.

[maxama10]

Compaq presario i think???then an hp pavilion and now my P4 Dell dimension 8300
Im hoping to get an apple power book next lots of money for a teen though

[PRPB]

I was to young to care what the specs where on are first computer. All I did was play games. All I remember is that is used 5.25 floppies Still wish we never got rid of it though.

First computer I remember:
Packard Bell
Windows 95
Pentium 150MHz
16mb ram
6gig Quantum Bigfoot HD
16x CD-Rom
3.5 floppy
Onboard Sound, video, modem

[CasingBill]

Yup I also had the Commodore64. I would only play LodeRunner on it.

The next one was 10 yrs later. A 486dx.....its still in the basement.

[Boski51]

Amiga 500! The best computer of it's time, went the way of the betamax!

[dave p]

atari 800 xl

i still have an apple ][+
full 64k, language chip, 80 column card,printer card, monochrome monitor///, 2 external diskII floppy drives and an apple branded epson dot matrix printer. i have reciepts and all original documentation/manuals complete with memory maps and 6502 assembly instructions.

[Boski51]

Remember when 1200 baud modem was FAST and then the 2400 was expensive and 9600 baud was only a dream.....he types on a dsl connection today.

Does anyone else remember BBSs?

[FooTemps]

i think i had some model of commodore... I don't remember since i was 3 when we got it.

[Muzikman]

Remember when 1200 baud modem was FAST and then the 2400 was expensive and 9600 baud was only a dream.....he types on a dsl connection today.

Does anyone else remember BBSs?

Hell man, I remember when 300 baud was the thing!

As for BBS's yes, I ran a Renegade BBS for years. Ya know, I honestly miss BBS's. Since most of the ones ya called were local, you got to meet some cool people.